On April 19th, the fifth stop of the new F1 season, came to the Shanghai station of the Chinese Grand Prix! Today is a practice and the first sprint qualifying race of the season, Zhou Guanyu played at home, today the track is angry and timely rain, God helped Zhou Guanyu win 10th, and Bottas two cars to advance to SQ3! In the end, Norris won the pole position in the sprint qualifying, Hamilton and Alonso were second and third, Verstappen was fourth, due to the rain on the scene, many drivers rushed off the track, Leclerc slipped and hit the wall.
F1 Chinese Grand Prix
The F1 Chinese Grand Prix returned to the field after five years, and this year is also the 20th anniversary of the F1 Chinese Grand Prix, Zhou Guanyu made his home debut on behalf of Sauber Racing, and in the first practice, Zhou Guanyu finished 11th, Stoll won the first practice, Piastri was 0.327 seconds behind in second place, and Verstappen was third.
At the end of the practice, it also rained lightly at the Shanghai International Circuit today, and the audience began to play umbrellas, and the sprint qualifying race was held at half past three in the afternoon, and the first sprint race will be held tomorrow.
The three quarters of the sprint race lasted 12 minutes, 10 minutes and 8 minutes respectively, SQ1 started the table, the radar showed that there would be rain on the track today, Zhou Guanyu ranked 13th in the first round of brushing laps, and finally Zhou Guanyu advanced to the 15th thrilling line, Gasly, O'Con, Albon, Tsunoda Yuyi, and Sargent were eliminated!
The grass on the scene actually caught fire, it is said that the spark from the chassis of the car was ignited, this situation is indeed very rare! Entering SQ22, Zhou Guanyu ranked 10th, Russell ranked 11th, and it rained in time again! Finally, Zhou Guanyu advanced to SQ3 for the first time in his career!
Entering SQ3, Leclerc rubbed slightly against the wall because the track was too slippery, and Norris refreshed the time to reach first, but the lap time was cancelled, and then the result was restored!
In the end, Norris took pole position in the sprint qualifying, Hamilton was second, while Bottas and Zhou Guanyu were ninth and tenth respectively, and Sauber both qualified for SQ3, making a good start to the Chinese Grand Prix, looking forward to the sprint race tomorrow at noon!